### Please describe the problem. ### What steps will reproduce the problem? git annex sync --content ### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? Mac OSX Maverics git-annex version: 5.20140127 build flags: Assistant Webapp Pairing Testsuite S3 WebDAV FsEvents XMPP DNS Feeds Quvi TDFA CryptoHash key/value backends: SHA256E SHA1E SHA512E SHA224E SHA384E SKEIN256E SKEIN512E SHA256 SHA1 SHA512 SHA224 SHA384 SKEIN256 SKEIN512 WORM URL ### Please provide any additional information below. [[!format sh """ copy Books/Paperless - Agile Bits Edition/Paperless Video/5-4 PDFpen for iPad.m4v (to origin...) FATAL: suspicious characters loitering about 'git-annex-shell 'recvkey' '/~/users/akraut/annex-home' 'SHA256E-s98445427--5fb5fd6e082eec4a805261764ef982aa8f12d76e07e86a6abb05e7675762ac49.m4v' '--' 'remoteuuid=03ac7aa9-d14c-4b60-adae-02e4a5ec0fa8' 'direct=' 'associatedfile=Books/Paperless - Agile Bits Edition/Paperless Video/5-4 PDFpen for iPad.m4v' '--' dummy rsync --server -v --inplace .' rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: the --max-delete limit stopped deletions (code 25) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-42/rsync/io.c(452) [sender=2.6.9] rsync failed -- run git annex again to resume file transfer failed """]] > From the error message, I can see that your origin repository > has an annex.uuid set (to "03ac7aa9-d14c-4b60-adae-02e4a5ec0fa8"). > So, I assume that, if you don't want git-annex sync to use it, > you must have remote.origin.annex-ignore set to true. So, I think I fixed > this a day or two ago when I made sync --content honor the annex-ignore > setting. [[done]] --[[Joey]]